Can Nothing Save Us?

A new book by Irvine Welsh is always an event . . . No living author is as entertaining to read

GQ

So propulsive . . . about as much fun as you can have between two book covers

The Times (on Dead Men’s Trousers)

Powerful . . . A bracing and engaging read

Daily Telegraph (on Crime)

Can Nothing Save Us? is a big American novel and applies the same sharp-eyed realism that Trainspotting brought to working-class Edinburgh to Trump’s US. Set in the scorching heat of Las Vegas, it’s a multigenerational thriller

Guardian

An epic American family saga . . . This is a bold and ambitious work, in which Welsh deftly shifts point of view with confidence and conviction . . . expansive, compelling and heartfelt . . . a literary triumph

Guardian

In his portrayal of family and city, Welsh clearly intends them to encapsulate a dying America – the other sense of the title’s ‘Us’ . . . [A] state-of-the-union satire

The Times, Best Thrillers to Read Now

Welsh’s greatest skill has always been cast-building, and so it is here… Each takes turns at carrying the narrative weight of the novel, and each is allowed a rich inner life and complicated outer relations

Financial Times